Reading Pierced for our Transgressions [which I have not yet finished], has inspired me to look at some other books on this subject. Last weekend, we were in Penrith celebrating our grandson Jerome's second birthday and I read a substantial portion of The Nature of the Atonement: four views, which includes an excellent article by Tom Schreiner on penal substitutionary atonement, as well as an article by Greg Boyd on the Christus Victor model and two other articles on the atonement as primarily healing, or kaleidoscopic.
The argument that the central teaching of the bible on this subject is that the death of Jesus was to take our place in suffering God's wrath for our sin still convinces me. I bought John Stott's The Cross of Christ yesterday and have dipped into it a little, having read bits of a library copy before. Stott argues, with Schreiner, that some of the other views are valuable [including the Christus Victor view] and should not be forgotten, but that penal substitutionary atonement is clearly primary.
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Hi,
I would love to hear more comments on the Stott book.
I'm reading Schreiner's commentary on Romans and like it a lot.
Are you referring to The Nature of the Atonement: Four Views?
Yes, Nature of the Atonement has a couple of different titles, I think.
I have not got into Stott, The Cross of Christ yet.
Been busy doing reviews of new books for Southern Cross and the Sydney Anglican website. [I'm an evangelical, but not an Anglican, by the way. But I really enjoy the SC and the website.]
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